This week I came across an article published in FundsPeople titled «Client risk in private banking management«. These are obviously arguments put forward by bankers and former private bankers, which already distorts considerably the reality of what wealth management in general and financial investment in particular should be, as we said back in 2008 in «...".«The unbearable lightness of management»(private banking). We advance this warning because the FundsPeople article only deals with the management of bank investments, i.e. money invested in bank investment products, shares handpicked by the bankers and ex-bankers on duty and other investment funds listed in the bank's sales catalogue. We want to make it clear that there is a fundamental deviation from the way we should treat families' money, which should include investments in unlisted companies (private equity), real estate investments and other assets in which, in order to invest, the money must come out of the bank's account. Obviously, private banks do without such investments, as their mission is to keep their clients' money in the bank that generates their income at the end of the month.
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«Some central banks in Europe are beginning to assess contingency plans for the possibility that some countries may leave the euro area or that the monetary union may collapse completely».» This is the headline of the 
I know this isn’t exactly news, but I simply cannot resist publicly denouncing a particular advert that has been flooding the media of late, and which I find particularly sickening, reprehensible, immoral, dangerous, vile, despicable—and who knows how many more adjectives I could come up with. It is not just misleading advertising, like so many others, but this one also distorts the harsh reality and misleads savers on a subject as sensitive and sacred as their families’ money. 
Preservar en tiempos revueltos no es el título del culebrón del verano sino la necesidad imperiosa de todos los gestores del patrimonio propio. También es una de las premisas de algunos gestores de patrimonio ajeno, pero éstos lamentablemente se suelen preocupar más por retener a sus sufridos clientes comercialmente reduciéndoles la volatilidad, que por preservar su patrimonio y hacerlo progresar adecuadamente a largo plazo. Desgraciadamente a muchos gestores de lo ajeno les interesa más el pan para hoy (el suyo) y obvian el hambre para mañana (el de sus clientes y también el suyo) de forma miope. Aquí reabriríamos el viejo debate de si sólo se debe confiar el dinero en asesores que hayan sabido generar su propia fortuna y que co-inviertan con sus Clientes, o si bastaría cualquier comisionista independiente con la formación téctica suficiente. Pero esa sería una discusión digna de otro artículo.